Space Hulk Is Back! Full Contents & Details Within [Updated]!
September 9, 2014 by brennon
A new teaser appeared on the Games Workshop What's New Today page showing off a teaser for what is now certainly a new print run of the Space Hulk board game. We've had a bit of rumour mongering but now the actual information and contents have popped up online...
As you can see above the contents of the box are very much the same as the 2009 version of the game and once again you're getting a very nice looking and indeed quality product. I think my own version of Space Hulk is still certainly rock solid tiles wise and miniatures wise and those Terminators are still amazing. I have seen them pop up in plenty of different armies with their Blood Angel iconography filed off and changed to fit different Chapters.
In the new White Dwarf it appears as if the focus is on running the Beachhead mission and it shows off the tiles and everything very nicely indeed. As you can see there is even the Boarding Torpedo tile next to the one linked to the other tiles. Very neat.
Above shows off some of the tiles in the game including one of the new ones that is part of the Hard Vacuum mission. It represents a breached section of the Space Hulk that your Terminators must trudge through and it does have a nice design and feel to it giving you a claustrophobic feel.
As well as the actual release there is also a White Dwarf Exclusive mission that's called Disable the Shields. Looks like another neat little bit of content for the game and could serve to push on the longevity of the game more.
What's inside...
- English Only Re-Release of the 2009 Version
- 4 New Scenarios
- New Counters including - Boarding Torpedoes, Breach Counters, Damaged Control Room & Turbo Lift Tiles
- 32 Easy Fit Models including - 22 Genestealers, 1 Broodlord & 12 Space Marine Terminators
- 189 Board Sections + Gaming Counters alongside the rulebook with 16 scenarios.
So there you have it. A new run of Space Hulk complete with some added extras. Do you think you'll come down on the side of the Space Marines and run with the Terminators or side with the stealthy hordes of Genestealers. Also don't forget to check out the poll below!
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Fantastic! I hope it won’t be another limited edition though. They should either reprint the last one (maybe with new bits) or do a new one, and keep it on sale to replace the LoTR stuff as the other choice of games to buy from GW.
Great news :o) I missed out on the last edition and have not been prepared to stump up the cash on ebay for it…
I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a new edition since it sold out fairly quickly and is still very much in demand. I managed to get a copy of the latest edition and don’t care if they simply reprint it. It’s not a collector’s item to me, it’s a great game you play so get more copies out there for people to have fun with!
Unlikely variants on the game No2.
Space Sulk
Marvin the Paranoid Android is given the job of janitor aboard a huge abandoned ship with GPP doors from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Bi-annual limited edition :o))
I don’t know why i feel a bit sad about it. It seems whenever GW needs a new flush of money, they sell Space Hulk :/ . How long will it be supported till they drop it again. Or is it another Christmas only “Space Hulk, Deadlfeet” sell thingy? I do like Space Hulk don’t get me wrong, but somehwo i have a “meh” feeling about it.
About time.
Limited edtion “as long as stocks last”.
Pretty bleh, but money saved then as i have it allready.
seeing as the last edition was so excellent and also had a ridiculously low print run, I would not be surprised if they simply reprint it.
Making new plastics is after all hideously expensive.
hmmm, I’ll be keeping my eye on this one 🙂 always loved space hulk 🙂
… will be interesting to see if it’s just a reprint, or has new minis ? 🙂
… considering how long GW works on their plastics before release ( up to 3 or 4 years sometimes )
it’s possible that this was being worked on long before the recent financial woes started ?
… either way, even if it’s just a simple reprint, then it will definitely make some people happy anyway 😉
The genestealers in the last box were brilliant – far better than anything for the table. Could have lived without the Blood Angels though – as a veteran of the original I yearned for something more neutral or for Deathwing (even if the fluff for them was unrecognisable compared to the curren)
It was confirmed now as a reprint, 4 new scenarios. box price is €100/£75/$125.
This week sees the release of a brand new edition of the iconic boxed game SPACE HULK.
•Contains everything you need to play 16 scenarios, including 4 totally new ones.
◦35 easy to assemble Citadel miniatures that do not require glue – 22 x Genestealers, 1 x Broodlord and 12 x Space Marine Terminators.
◦189 board sections and gaming counters, including the new boarding torpedoes, breach counters, a damaged control room and turbo-lift tile sections.
◦1 x Rulebook and 1 x Mission book.
Price 100€/75£/125$
Yawn! Space Hulk. Again. From GW’s POV it probably makes sense. It’s a game with modles that are or directly tie in to 40K. Got SH? Why not buy some Space Marines or Tyranids and have a go at 40K while you’re at it? Necromunda or Mordheim would be more interesting. They are great skirmish games that could be produced in a very high production quality that would give the newer companies a run for their money. Imagine the quality of Nagash in a 28mm multi-part plastic model! The same applies for Necromunda. The problem for GW is that these… Read more »
It is easy money in the bank.
A sure seller, with all the work allready done.
I just hope some poor sod isnt sitting on a stack of the games at home waiting for the price to soar.
if they were sitting on a pile of boxes then serves them right. They speculated on a game, denying those copies going to people who actually wanted to buy the game to play it at the time. Not ‘poor sod’ … more ‘sod-em’!
I really hope there is. I couldn’t get a copy last time because it sold out before I could get one. Fuck em.
they could do 2 player starters for both Necromunda and Mordheim easily for around £40 each 🙂
I think they’d sell like wild fire 😉 I know I’d buy both first day 😉
space hulk seems like an interesting choice right now though 🙂
… maybe they are hoping to attract some board game players to the miniatures world with this 😉
… for that to work well though, they really need to make this a wide release, not limited….
If Necromunda was released it would sell out in moments, they would definitely make their money on that franchise and bring back quite a few veterans to the hobby. I would even buy it, and what they can do with scenery now, it would be awesome!!!
… we can dream at least 😉 ha ha but yes, they’re definitely missing out on a game that would be a massive release 🙂 … the whole reason they stopped the specialist games division in the first place was because they thought nobody played Necromunda, or Mordheim, Gorkamorka, etc, anymore : / … without thinking logically, that if they don’t release any new products for them for 5 – 10 years, then there’s nothing new for players to buy (X , X) ha ha … just 1 year of releases like they did for Mordheim or Gorkamorka isn’t really… Read more »
Sadly while Necromunda started out as an incredible and well supported game, it suffered a revised ‘let’s drop half of it and raise the price’ edition.
Without the 2 expansions and the original terrain, I wouldn’t touch it.
Ok. I’ve put my foot in it and pre-ordered anyway. I’m such a slave. :p What did annoy me to no end was that it was already sold out, or “no longer available” on the online GW store yesterday morning (Saturday)! Are you having a laugh, GW!? Luckily I managed to place an order at Wayland Games. Next I saw that you can get expansion rules as digital downloads on iPad. Yay! For £10!? For a limited release game!? What? WHAT!? And they just tweak the Terminator rules it seems. No you can play Ultramarines, Dark Angels and Space Wolves… Read more »
£10 for something that could have, sorry, should have, been in the box anyway for a game that is already overpriced, or a freebie PDF
I’d like to see a new Space Hulk if for no other reason that people can buy it without having pay through the nose on the secondary market.
Space Hulk is one of those games that I have played a few times but never actually owned. On the two or three occasions where I’ve had enough interest to buy a copy, GW has not had enough interest to sell me one so if this means I can finally buy one at retail prices then I’m pretty happy about it.
I would love to see a Descent-Like Space Hulk, something similar to what FFG did for Star Wars… but that’s just a dream 🙁
I own a copy of the last edition and can’t see me splurging out on another one again. Is it me or are GW just trying to clutch at straws to keep going? Thoroughly rinsed 40k last year to keep the balance books in the black and now this year we have WFB and space hulk to prop things up. Can we not get something more original or more interesting (blood bowl/mordheim/necromunda)
“Thoroughly rinsed 40k last year to keep the balance books in the black and now this year we have WFB and space hulk to prop things up.”
They didn’t keep the balance books in the black, though. They’re in the red so far this year. They need a guaranteed seller like Space Hulk. Hell, they need a few of these. I wouldn’t be surprised if this print run were a bit larger than the last one.
Erm, not they aren’t, unless you have some sort of magical insight into their finances that no one else does, GW are in profit (IE, “in the black”) based on last quarter and expect to finish the year in profit.
Why the need to be snappy? We are all friends here.. 🙂 GW’s profits took quite a nosedive last year by all accounts of their financial year-end results, and that was on top of significant cost reductions (hundreds of staff losing their jobs etc.), and a major re-launch of their main product line in 40k. The plastics for this are already tooled, no need for expensive game writers and testers etc. In terms of expenditure vs. profit it’s a bit of a no-brainer, this will certainly result in a worthwhile cash injection into the company. GW putting a few extra… Read more »
The results you’re talking about show a reduction in profits yes, but that year ended before the new edition of 40K, which wasn’t a major relaunch so much as a new rulebook (which aren’t high profit items), the cost reductions had already been put in place and they had a big new website to pay for as well as dividend payments for share holders. All in all, a pretty healthy outlook for a company and one that is sustainable. Just because you read a blog by a bitter nerd who can’t afford all the plastic toys he wants that a… Read more »
I can’t see them doing blood bowl. As they didn’t support it for so long others provided alternative teams. Some of which are beautiful.
All over this like a rash. Can’t wait!
Locally, there’s a feeling it might be nothing more than some terminator sprues in a box with some genestealer sprues and a little booklet akin to Stormclaw. Maybe with Plastic special characters like those included in that box. Blood Angels do still have a 5th edition codex…
Outpost gaming store in Sheffield are advising they’ll only have 24 copies for sale, so this is definitely limited.
Where is the Outpost please Ben?
Is it in the old GW shop just off the bottom of the Moor.
(Not a you are likely to find in Othello)
*not a line you are likely to find
I’ve only ever bought from them online (their customer service is exceptionally good). This is where they are –
http://the-outpost.co.uk/about-us/how-to-finds-us.html
Not sure. If it isn’t the old GW store it is very close to where it used to be
Just wondered if someone took the joint over
Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like but;
– AvP was originally due for release in May, now GW were busy with 7th Ed 40k at that point.
– AvP got put back to late Sept…. a new Space Hulk is a quick win for GW as they don’t exactly need to do a lot to update it
Was this originally timed to compete with AvP?
Nope, no one who hasn’t already paid for AvP will buy AvP, there is nothing to compete with.
Not so sure about that, the AvP license still carries a lot of weight. Also, believe it’s going on a more general release with plastic miniatures, Space Hulk is no doubt only going to be available for a limited time and in limited quantities, and from much more limited locations.
We’ll see, I don’t think it will sell well as the people interested backed on kickstarter, and seriously? AvP carrying weight? From what? The terrible movies or the last terrible video game?
Yes you won’t get any arguments from me about the movies being terrible! – but, the fact that there are at least 3 new movies in the pipeline (new Aliens, Predator and Prometheus), new games (new Alien one in a few months, possibly more?) shows that there must still be money in the franchise, even if some of those releases get a critical mauling. Fox are putting a fair bit of effort into the AvP boardgame – if they do get an easy-click assembly plastics for the main release (which I believe is planned) then it will probably find its… Read more »
How many times can you release something before you get taken to Trading Standards for calling it a limited edition …..
They never called it a limited edition.
A limited print run is not the same as a limited edition. They can do this as many times as they like, the ‘limited’ tag is about creating a hype to encourage people to spend their money asap. However on other occasions did you hear the one where GW ‘announced’ and asked their shop staff to say that they were running out of limited editions of other box sets (DV, Hobbit) containing exclusive models – only to see stocks of those editions still in shops months later; that’s just dumb lying that loses a company any integrity and trust (well… Read more »
Hearing about something online is not the same as it actually happening.
Even if it is a limited edition I am not sure there is going to be a case to answer.
A limited 2nd edition isn’t going to be much of a trading standards breach.
It would be disappointing to miss out a second time, but don’t see what could be done about it.
Personally I would just go elsewhere for a space dungeon crawl
Seventh Level: Omega Protocol for one.
Galaxy Defenders looks pretty darnned good for another
*Darned or damned. You get to chose
Sigh I wish they would re-release Epic 40K in a box set as it’s something I missed out the first time and would love to give it a try
I would go for that one already got Spacehulk I, II, plus the two first extension boxes
They could use the money.
Other companies release stuff like epic and call it dropzone commander. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not saying they ripped the idea or stole it. I mean, there is a market for games that have a scifi background in smale scale. With the technical development since the last release, GW should be able to bring out a fantastic game that brings some new people to the hobby and some lost souls back again. Mortheim seems a little bit like carnevale to me. A game on a skirmish level with rpg aspects, narative playing. I was at the point to… Read more »